Comparing D-Day And Women's Education Project

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The two organization groups I have chosen to research are V-DAY and Women’s Education Project (WEP); both encourage striving for better and more confident lifestyles. V-DAY is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, whether that has to do with rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation and sex slavery. The members of V-DAY spread aware by raising money, creating events and revitalize existing anti-violence organizations. The Women’s Education Project is also an amazing organization that sends women whose families live on less than $1.50 a day in India to college. WEP not only send their students to college, but also provides each one of them with tuition for books, transportation, libraries, computer labs and different leadership programs. Both of these women’s groups are making major impact on women’s lives all around the world. …show more content…
They are very different from one another, but both main goals are to better women who have encountered unfortunate means. That right is so impacting I do not think I can specifically choose one over the other. Both V-DAY and WEP are trying to empower women to resist the cycle or stand up to the harsh society that is trying to hold them back from their true potential. What I do like more is that V-DAY has more publicity for their organization by holding different events that make them well know. I think if WEP used this strategy then more people would donate to their great cause and women would become more education in India. To empower women they need to feel confident and motivated that they can make a difference and I believe that both of these organizations are doing that

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